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Title Negotiating community and difference in medieval Europe : gender, power, patronage, and the authority of religion in Latin Christendom / edited by Katherine Allen Smith and Scott Wells.

Publication Info. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2009.

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Description 1 online resource (xix, 292 pages, 1 unnumbered page) : illustrations.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Studies in the history of Christian traditions ; v. 142
Studies in the history of Christian traditions ; v. 142.
Note "The essays in this collection are offered to Penelope D. Johnson ... on the occasion of her retirement"--Preface.
"Most of the papers ... had their inception in a series of three panels convened in Pene's honor at the 41st International Congress on Medieval Studies at Kalamazoo, Michigan, in May of 2006"--Preface.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contents Gender, power, and patronage : the impact of Penelope D. Johnson on medieval studies ; Penelope D. Johnson, the Boswell thesis, and Negotiating community and difference in medieval Europe / Katherine Allen Smith, Scott Wells -- Living with a saint : monastic identity, community, and the ideal of asceticism in the life of an Irish saint / Diane Peters Auslander -- A tale of two dioceses : prologues as letters in the Vitae authored by Jacques de Vitry and Thomas de Cantimpré / Christina Roukis-Stern -- "Within the walls of paradise" : space and community in the Vita of Umiliana de' Cerchi (1219-1246) / Anne M. Schuchman -- Architectural mimesis and historical memory at the Abbey of Mont-Saint-Michel / Katherine Allen Smith -- Holy women and the needle arts : piety, devotion, and stitching the sacred, ca. 500-1150 / Jane Tibbetts Schulenburg -- Politics of gender and ethnicity in East Francia : the case of Gandersheim, ca. 850-950 / Scott Wells -- Noble women's power as reflected in the foundations of Cistercian houses for nuns in thirteenth-century Northern France : Port-Royal, les Clairets, Moncey Lieu and Eau-lez-Chartres / Constance Hoffman Berman -- "Inseparable companions" : Mary Magdalene, Abelard, and Heloise / Susan Valentine -- Book, body, and the construction of the self in the Taymouth hours / Kathryn A. Smith -- Abbott Erluin's blindness : the monastic implications of violent loss of sight / Susan Wade -- Blanche of Artois and Burgundy, Château-Gaillard, and the Baron de Joursanvault / Elizabeth A.R. Brown -- Matter of others : menstrual blood and uncontrolled semen in thirteenth-century kabbalists' polemic against Christians, "bad" Jews, and Muslims / Alexandra Cuffel.
Summary Encompassing the work of historians, art-historians, and literary scholars, these essays explore how interrelated processes of communal inclusion and exclusion - articulated through institutions, discourses, performances, and artefacts - shaped the construction of individual and collective identities in medieval Europe.
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Subject Johnson, Penelope D. (Penelope Delafield), 1938-
Johnson, Penelope D. (Penelope Delafield), 1938-
Johnson, Penelope D., 1938- (Johnson, Penelope Delafield)
Europe -- Religious life and customs.
Europe.
Religion and sociology -- Europe -- History -- To 1500.
Religion and sociology.
History.
Chronological Term To 1500
Subject Monastic and religious life -- History -- Middle Ages, 600-1500.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Festschriften.
Festschriften.
Added Author Smith, Katherine Allen.
Wells, Scott, 1970-
Other Form: Print version: Negotiating community and difference in medieval Europe. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2009 9789004171251 (DLC) 2009007298 (OCoLC)310959763
ISBN 9789047424567 (electronic book)
9047424565 (electronic book)
9789004171251 (cloth)
9004171258 (cloth)
Standard No. 10.1163/ej.9789004171251.i-300